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Subject: Re: What is the meaning of ? in the shredder's book

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 02:06:55 01/25/03

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On January 24, 2003 at 21:42:54, James T. Walker wrote:

>On January 24, 2003 at 15:26:55, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On January 24, 2003 at 14:51:53, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>The question marks are intended to prevent the engine from playing that move
>>>from book.
>>>Jim
>>
>>no, they dont prevent the engine from playing that move. In Shredder classic
>>there are move values from a to g. the value indicates how often a move will be
>>played by the program. In Chessbase GUI it has some influence regarding how
>>often a move is played. However if all moves are marked with ? like here it has
>>no meaning at all.
>
>Please read my post again.  You are mistaken.
>Jim

mark 1.e4 with ? or ?? force first moves and see what happens (CB). It will play
e4 from book.



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